Book Reviews | Health
Capitalizing on Care
Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism demonstrates how the labor of caring is a site of economic extraction.
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Reviews of top books on social innovation
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Book Reviews | Water & Sanitation
A Path Forward for Water
Liquid Asset examines how the public and private sectors can better collaborate on our society’s pressing water problems.
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Book Reviews | Philanthropy & Funding
Finding Black Joy in Pain
Scholar and activist Christopher Paul Harris re-envisions the history of Black protest movements to argue for new politics based on pain, joy, and care.
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Book Reviews | Business
Who Benefits From Benefit Corporations?
In Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation, Michael B. Dorff contributes a well-balanced examination of the pros and cons of the benefit corporation.
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Book Reviews | Civic Engagement
Exiting the Fast Lane
Social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer argues for slowness as the most effective method for creating lasting social change.
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Book Reviews | Government
System Error
In Recoding America, Barack Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer argues that the success of government policies requires better implementation of digital services for the public.
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Book Reviews | Human Rights
Poverty Persists Because of Us
In Poverty, by America, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues that America’s welfare state doesn’t help those who need it the most.
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Book Reviews | Organizational Development
Organizations … Again!
Organization theorist Henry Mintzberg offers a mixed bag of old and new ideas on organizational structures in his latest book.
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Book Reviews | Philanthropy & Funding
The Future of Elite Giving
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
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Book Reviews | Arts & Culture
People Behave Badly
We learn a great deal about how people are complicit in wrongdoing from Max H. Bazerman’s Complicit. But we are left wondering why.